Moon

‘moon’,

easy way to type it:

mitʼiiyaadis,
also midiiyaadis

Lolly Metcalf’s Coos Bay Milluk

Americanist Phonetic

IPA

[ mɪtʼiya·dɪs ],

then

[ mɪdiya·dɪs ]

[ mɪtʼiyɑˑdɪs ],

then

[ mɪdiyɑˑdɪs ]

A Definite Heavy Pronunciation: In Lolly’s second time saying this word meaning ‘moon’ in this interview segment, she has what we call a ‘heavy pronunciation’ of the consonant that is an ejective in Annie Miner Peterson’s pronunciation of this word. In other words, she says the second consonant of this Milluk word as the voiced stop consonant [ d ], the second time that she says this word.

Instant Phonetic Englishization: mitt_t!ee_yah_diss.

A Zero-Grade
Light Pronunciation of an Ejective: We
give Lolly credit for pronouncing this word the first time in this interview
segment with her saying the second consonant [ tʼ ] with what we call a ‘light pronunciation’ of
the ejective [ tʼ ], but we can hardly detect any ejective quality to it. It sounds as much like a voiceless un-aspirated stop
consonant, the t in the English words ‘steel’ and ‘steal’. With other Milluk words, Lolly variously has
ejectives which are emphatically ejective or lightly ejective. We call the voiceless un-aspirated
pronunciation of what is otherwise an ejective a ‘zero-grade light
pronunciation’ of an ejective. It can be
heard in other Milluk words. See what we
say about phonetically voiceless un-aspirated stop consonants and ejectives in what
we say about the interview segment “He Knew It”. There, we do not refer to the voiceless
un-aspirated pronunciation of a stop consonant as a ‘zero-grade light
pronunciation’ of an ejective and we have taken the approach of not putting the
ejective pronunciation in our table of transcriptions for the one-word Milluk
sentence that means ‘He/she knew it’, on the grounds that we do not actually
hear the consonant in question as an ejective from Lolly.